China: What We Must Do, What We Must Not Do
by
Gordon G. ChangJune 1, 2020
The truth is that the United States is defending more than just its position in the international system.
We are defending the international system itself, the system of treaties, conventions, rules, and norms.
Unfortunately, Xi Jinping, the Chinese ruler, does not believe in that system.
He is trying to impose China's imperial-era notions of the world.
In short, Chinese rulers believed that they had the mandate of heaven over tianxia, meaning "all under heaven."
Recently, his pronouncements have become unmistakable.
In the last few months,
Xi Jinping has seen an historic opportunity because the United States has been stricken by the disease that China itself has pushed out... What must we do? First,
let us talk about what we must not do.
We must not save Chinese communism again. In the past, American presidents, when China has been stressed, had ridden to the rescue of the Chinese state.
On May 13 of last year,
Beijing declared a "people's war" on the United States.
This means the contest with China is existential. There is going to be one survivor. It is either going to be the Peoples' Republic of China or the United States of America, but not both. What should we do? In my call for action, there are eight items. First, we need to cut off trade with China. Now, I know a lot of people think we should not do this, or this would be unfortunate. Yes, this is unfortunate, but the point is that China's communism cannot be reformed, so the only way we can protect American society and Americans is to reduce our exposure to China and our great exposure, of course, is trade... we should not be enriching a hostile state with the proceeds of commerce with the United States.
China's Communist Party does not have sovereign immunity.... We have the Global Magnitsky Act.
We need to "rip and replace" all the equipment in our telecom backbone that has been supplied by Huawei Technologies... China has been using that company's equipment to spy on others. We should have no Huawei equipment in our backbone
Also, we should be turfing out even more Chinese journalists.
Those "journalists"... work for China's intelligence services.
Unfortunately, China does not believe in comparative advantage, it does not believe in being a responsible member of the international community. Unfortunately, the only thing we can do is what many people think is unthinkable, and that is to cut our ties with China.... We cut our ties until... the Communist Party no longer rules [and] the Chinese people govern themselves.... I believe the Chinese people eventually will get this right.
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